Friday, August 07, 2015

Are you ready for a fun Power & Spark Challenge from Power Poppy? This month I have the privilege of hosting the challenge, and I thought it would be fun to see some Shabby Chic creations.

To play along with this month's challenge, you simply need to create a card or project using soft colors, distressed edges, vintage embellishments...anything that gives your creation that shabby chic look. You decide what that means to you!

Rather than printing the digital image off in the usual black ink, I chose to invert the colors. This made the sunflower image white and the background black. I then lightened up the background until it was a soft gray color. Coloring the image was a little trickier than usual, since if I colored over the white lines, they would disappear. I chose to not do as much blending as I normally would, and the resulting look is bold and colorful.

Here's a close-up:

Here's a look at the Copic colors I used:

Finally, here's a peek at the inside of the card:

A couple of coordinating card stock layers and a fantastic sentiment highlighted with a bit of RV00 Copic marker, makes for a simple & attractive inside.

Be sure to swing by the rest of the Bloom Brigade blogs to see their incredible creations today. Here's who is playing along:

Saturday, August 01, 2015

Happy August to you! Have you enjoyed the sneak peeks of this month's Power Poppy release? Well, today is your lucky day! All three of those gorgeous stamp sets are now available for you to purchase in the Power Poppy store!

Today, the Bloom Brigade is offering you one more look at projects made with this month's release. I chose to work with the Happy Crabapple set for my card.

My card layers are all white. I air-brushed the background of the stamped layer with a BG15 Copic marker and Copic Air-brush System. I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black, and colored it with the following Copic markers:

Be sure to check out the rest of the Bloom Brigade blogs to see their awesome projects for today: